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Dutch agency admits climate report error

By : sustainabilityo..., Jul 6, 2010

A leading Dutch environmental agency, taking the blame for one of the glaring errors that undermined the credibility of a seminal U.N. report on climate change, said Monday it has discovered more small mistakes and urged the panel to be more careful.

But the review by...

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Melting ice fields pose serious threat to water supply in Asia

By : Preeti Aggarwal, Jul 5, 2010

There are fears that in 25 years, 80 per cent of local glaciers will vanish as warming bites, writes  CLIFFORD COONAN in Tibet

LOCAL PEOPLE selling trinkets and prayer flags at the Karola Pass in Tibet are looking nervously at the glacier behind, which has melted...

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Melting ice fields pose serious threat to water supply in Asia

By : Preeti Aggarwal, Jul 5, 2010

There are fears that in 25 years, 80 per cent of local glaciers will vanish as warming bites, writes  CLIFFORD COONAN in Tibet

LOCAL PEOPLE selling trinkets and prayer flags at the Karola Pass in Tibet are looking nervously at the glacier behind, which has melted...

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Climate-change movie suffers without disaster footage

By : Preeti Aggarwal, Jul 5, 2010

No longer content to simply present persuasive data models using PowerPoint as in "The Inconvenient Truth," films like "The Age of Stupid" and "Climate Refugees" are demonstrating the devastating relationships between contemporary natural catastrophes and the effects of...

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A chair to showcase India's concern on climate change

By : sustainabilityo..., Jul 4, 2010

The year 2010, so far, has been the hottest year recorded by many scientists. Not to forget that climate change is the biggest global phenomenon in today’s time, Delhi-based graphic designer Puneet Gupta has put his best foot forward by designing a climate change chair made...

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A simpler path to cutting carbon emissions

By : sustainabilityo..., Jul 2, 2010

If our goal is carbon reduction, a cap-and-trade or carbon-pricing bill, with its likely compromises, would be worse right now than no regulation. Pricing carbon below $40 per ton will not change how industry does business or drive adoption of new technologies. With...

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Global recession sees carbon dioxide levels hold steady

By : sustainabilityo..., Jul 2, 2010

The world's industrial emissions of climate-changing carbon dioxide held steady last year, as recession slowed production in rich countries while growth in China and India made up the difference, a leading monitoring agency reported today.

The Netherlands Environment...

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Tata BP Solar Says Business is Normal After Parent BP's Troubles in U.S.

By : sustainabilityo..., Jun 29, 2010

Tata BP Solar India Ltd., jointly owned by BP Plc and Tata Power Co., said business continues after liabilities mounted for its British parent from the Gulf of Mexico oil leak and rating downgrades. “We are carrying on business as before, it has no relevance,” Krishnappa...

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Journalists should not forget climate change, say experts

By : sustainabilityo..., Jun 22, 2010

It’s been a difficult few months for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, one of the foremost bodies charged with evaluating the risk climate change.

Since the unearthing of an embarrassing error in the most recent IPCC report – the statement that the...

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EU, U.S. clean energy support under threat: HSBC

By : sustainabilityo..., Jun 22, 2010

Governments last year agreed a global stimulus to kick-start the global economy, including about $500 billion for clean energy and infrastructure, but rhetoric had shifted toward austerity ahead of this week's G20 summit. Renewable energy incentives were under threat...

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Subject Tags: Disaster , energy